Conversion does not take place through the recitation of pious
formulas. This is the message that Christian Stückl places at the
dramaturgical center of his revised version of Everyman (Jedermann). Jedermann's
late insight of having missed the point of his own life becomes the
turning point of his conversion – made possible and initiated by the
trusting gaze of a woman. In this gaze, he sees that his life has not
been judged summarily. In the end, that is the faith which is demanded
of Jedermann: the conviction that God means well for him and his life,
and will continue to mean well until the end. That the creator has
placed his creature on a path, and will return him to that path, in
spite of all his aberrations and mistakes. Conversion is more than
turning around, it is returning home: arriving at one's own self, at
the human core of being inherent in every person.Josef Bruckmoser